Sitting in his lawyer's office on a recent afternoon, Palma teared up as he tried to recount the night that left a curved, indented scar along his left temple.
Such "device-independent" cryptography is currently all the rage and Dr Ekert is exploring how to test if a given device, irrespective of provenance, generates secure keys.Following the success of the Tenerife-La Palma link-up Dr Zeilinger, too, has grander ambitions.
De Palma, however, came up with the methods of bygone days.
Elsewhere, the increasingly frantic search for a big, new guitar band throws up Palma Violets – glowering atmospherics with definite hint of Wu Lyf in the pained vocals – and California's Haim, who, live at least, sound no more like their advance billing of folk-meets-R&B than they do the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, but they clearly have decent songs to spare.
In 2009, high densities of Pseudo-nitzschia spp. were observed in Palma Sola Bay (up to 2.2×106 cells/L) with most samples in Sarasota Bay also containing significant densities of Pseudo-nitzschia (>104 cells/L).
Many luxury yachts tie up in Palma when not sailing around the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Palma, who had choked up as Mr. Chávez's band, The Fishermen of the Barn (a reference to the name of a local dam), played her son's favorites, said later that she, too, found joy in the occasion.
But if the De Palma is skilfully sexed-up Hitchcock, what on earth is the Kubrick?
Seated and wrapped in a blue shawl as she sang, she raised a hand to her breast and the hand juddered as if receiving an electric shock; when she finished with her elegant outburst, she took up the palmas again, the clapping patterns delineating the music's 12-beat rhythms through cresting and subsiding tensions.
But after 17 days on the river, we were picked up yesterday in Palma del Rio and driven the last 60 miles to Seville in a van.
